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To: Elroy who wrote (254883)	10/12/2005 7:03:07 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571848

It's a hack job written by a liberal media outlet. Don't even try to figure it out... Message 21783862 Kinda like all the bad news you read from Iraq. All written by hacks that don't leave the green zone or sit at their NY desks making it up as they go... :)

To: Elroy who wrote (254883)	10/12/2005 7:21:25 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571848

re: Scott Mendeloff, ... says Fitzgerald demonstrates "a more black-and-white view of the world" that is "reductionist in disregarding nuances beyond what it will take to prevail." ********* Hmmm. OK. What does that mean!? :-) If you read the whole article, you get the impression that Fitz is just a hard nosed prosecutor that's clean as possible and apolitical... a bulldog. WSJ is reporting that that the scope of the investigation "appears" to be wider than previously thought, and that resolution may come next week. Another article: New York Times reporter summoned to testify again** By Adam Entous Wed Oct 12,12:39 AM ET New York Times reporter Judith Miller was summoned for a second appearance on Wednesday before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity after she found notes from a previously undisclosed conversation with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. In a memo to New York Times staff on Tuesday, Executive Editor Bill Keller said Miller would return to the grand jury to "supplement" her initial testimony after handing over to federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald notes from her June 23, 2003, conversation with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. That once-secret conversation could help Fitzgerald establish that the White House started targeting diplomat Joseph Wilson and possibly his wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, in the weeks before Wilson publicly accused the Bush administration of twisting intelligence on Iraq. The New York Times reported that an entry in her notes referred to Wilson. President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, has also been summoned to make another appearance -- his fourth -- before the grand jury later this week, and prosecutors have told him they cannot guarantee he will not be indicted. After 85 days in jail, Miller testified before the grand jury for the first time on September 30 about her two previously disclosed conversations with Libby -- on July 8 and July 12, 2003. "For a couple more days she (Miller) remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of legal jeopardy," Keller said. It is unclear how Fitzgerald first learned about the June 23, 2003, conversation. Legal sources close to Miller said she discovered the notes after she testified. According to a National Journal report, in two appearances before the federal grand jury, Libby did not disclose the June 23 conversation with Miller. Nor did Libby disclose the conversation when he was twice interviewed by FBI agents. Wilson asserts that administration officials outed his wife, damaging her ability to work undercover, to discredit him for criticizing Bush's Iraq policy in 2003 after Wilson made a CIA-funded trip to investigate whether Niger helped supply nuclear materials to Baghdad. The June 23, 2003, conversation was two weeks before Wilson publicly criticized the administration's Iraq policy in a New York Times opinion piece on July 6, 2003, but after reports of his mission had begun to surface in the press. ROVE 'NEVER PART OF ANY SCHEME'-LAWYER Fitzgerald is wrapping up his investigation into who leaked Plame's identity and whether any laws were violated. He has not indicated whether he intends to bring indictments, but lawyers close to the investigation said there were signs he may be moving in that direction and could bring charges as early as next week. Fitzgerald could bring charges against officials for the crime of knowingly revealing the identity of an undercover CIA operative, but lawyers say his focus may be shifting to conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Libby's June 23, 2003 conversation with Miller could bolster the case for conspiracy or perjury charges because the conversation was not initially disclosed and suggests that there was a preemptive effort to discredit Wilson, lawyers say. After initially denying any involvement in the leak, Rove's defenders now say he was never part of a White House anti-Wilson campaign. "Karl has consistently and truthfully maintained that he was never part of any scheme to punish Joe Wilson by disclosing the identity of his wife," said Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin. Lawyers said Rove could use his fourth appearance before the grand jury to amend or recant earlier statements that may contradict the testimony of other witnesses, including Matt Cooper, the Time magazine reporter who told the grand jury that Rove was one of his sources. By asking Miller to testify a second time, lawyers involved in the case said, Fitzgerald appeared to be trying to establish when the White House first learned about Wilson and his wife, and started talking to reporters.